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Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 15:11, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Keep it up!

Hey, I noticed some of your recent edits and I'd like to thank you for your boldness in creating a few articles. Your work is appreciated. --Dmcdevit 05:52, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

PS, judging by your edits (and name)you might look at Misplaced Pages:Notice board for India-related topics. And you can always check out the open tasks if you need more ideas!

Thanks

hi to you both and to all others,

My sincere thanks for the kind words and the suggestions.

--Bhadani 06:25, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

India

Welcome to the India contributors. Your experience would be handy. If you need any assistance, you can message me. Nichalp 18:38, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)

thanks Sundar =

thanks for reverting back the jharkhand page , where I did something inadvertantly ... 'hope to have ur assitance ... actually drawing inspiration from Tamilnadu page I was trying to put a district map of jahrkhand there ... anyway, thank to u and all others ...

Links that might be useful

Hi, Welcome aboard. You may find the following links useful:

v t e Links for Wikipedians interested in India-related content
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Sundar (talk · contribs) 13:03, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)

Jharkhand

You can rollback your mistakes by looking at the history tab on the top of your page. Just see the history and click on the date+time. Click on Edit; ignore the warning and save the page. PS your image on Jharkhand districts may be deleted if you do not add the tags for it. Nichalp 19:35, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)

Our best state page is Sikkim, which is a Featured Article (one of wikipedia's best). It would be a good idea if you can emulate Sikkim. You may also take a look at Goa, which I've almost finished. Nichalp 20:33, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)

hello from India

Thanks for the note. Welcome to Misplaced Pages. From a glance at your recent contributions it looks like you're doing great work. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 14:27, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Image tags

If the images are created by you then there is no problem. If it is from a site, then you would need to get explicit permission from the site to upload the images. Each image on wikipedia needs to be tagged so that we know the details on how the image is licenced.

Briefly licences are as follows:

1. Public Domain: Publisher has given up all rights to the image and anyone can use it for commercial or non-commercial use.
2. GFDL: Misplaced Pages is licenced under GFDL. Briefly this means that the image may be modified by anyone who wishes to, but would have to credit you as the original developer. Commercial use if any, can only be undertaken if you are contacted.
3. Creative Commons: Similar to Public Domain, but the original author would need to be credited.
4. Copyrighted: not recommended for wikipedia.
5. (There are a few more; such as for flags, logos etc)

To tag an image use the following tags: {{PD}}, {{PD-self}} (if the image is yours), {{CC}} (there are more versions and subgroups here) on the image page. A preferred way of adding the tags is by directly adding the tag in the summary box while uploading. See image:sikkimdistricts.png

If the image is made by you, It would be better if the image was saved as a PNG image file instead of JPEG. If the image is licenced under the first three points, consider uploading it to Misplaced Pages Commons so that the image can be shared by other wikipedia languages. Nichalp 18:23, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)

Welcome

Welcome to Misplaced Pages. I know how addictive it can be. Your life won't be the same.  :) RickK 19:47, Apr 2, 2005 (UTC)

Johar

Take a look at this page: Misplaced Pages:What wikipedia is not. Please not e this is an encyclopedia, and any personaly views and poetic language not suitable to wikipedia is liable to be deleted. Please do not add such pages in the future. I encourage you to improve the three states as best as you can.  =Nichalp (talk · contribs)= 18:10, Apr 2, 2005 (UTC)

Johar Jharkhand

Howdy. Regarding the Johar Jharkhand article: my reference to "Nigerian email scam" in my vote for deletion was only meant to draw a comparison between writing styles. I've been getting a lot of that kind of spam lately, and the article only reminded me of it. No offense meant.

Also: I suppose you've already realized your mistake, since you reposted your message to me on my talk page, but user communication ought to go on user talk pages, not user pages themselves. If you make this mistake again in the future (I do all the time when leaving a message for a user that does not yet have a user page) I don't think anyone would mind if you just remove the message.

Welcome to Misplaced Pages. Have fun! android↔talk 22:00, Apr 2, 2005 (UTC)

article Awasthi under VfD

Hello Tony, I just edited the article but while editing I had forgotten to log on. I had also placed my intention to edit the article, while giving my comments in respect of VfD. How can the edits which I did can be given to me? Please help me, if possible.--Bhadani 19:39, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

It's okay, this happens a lot. Just go back to what you wrote and append --~~~~ to sign it. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 22:00, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your support

Thanks for your vote of support for my adminship. -- Sundar (talk · contribs) 05:20, Apr 4, 2005 (UTC)

Goa

Since you like the Goa article, you may want to vote for it in WP:FAC so that it can be upgraded as one of wikipedia's best. On April 7 (UTC), check main page of wikipedia for Today's Featured Article for a special article.  =Nichalp (talk · contribs)= 20:20, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for supporting my adminship — I vow to use my super powers for good not evil. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 09:54, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Goa -- references

Could you provide references to the matter you listed on the Goa vote? It would be nice to include the matter, but you would have to reference the matter. Please list the book or the link as is already done. (We're running out of time...) =Nichalp (talk · contribs)= 19:04, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)

One more thing. Would you comment on my map: image:IndiaMaharashtratest.png? Some Bangladesh islands are incorrectly coloured and Sri Lanka is missing, I know. I'm looking to replace all the states and UTs with the map.  =Nichalp (talk · contribs)= 19:19, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the link  =Nichalp (talk · contribs)=

Thanks

Hi Mr. Bhadani,

Thanks for your editing of Awasthi Page. Just wanted to check if you have written Asthana Brahmins by error at some places (cause I have never heard of any.)

Regards, and thanks once again. Bobby Awasthi

Mahabodhi Temple

I'm very pleased to hear that you are arranging for new images of the temple! That will be very nice. Right now, we only have one picture, and it's not very good. However, there is no need to have a space for images before the images are ready -- you can always add it later! Also, it is better not to add more than a few images to an article. If you have a lot of pictures to add, please use Wikimedia Commons! You can add pictures straight to http://commons.wikimedia.org/Mahabodhi_Temple. This will be much more convenient for other editors. - Nat Krause 14:14, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your wishes. -- Sundar (talk · contribs) 05:51, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)

Jharkhand

I read with interest your well-written Jharkhand article. Would you include some of the best medical facilities available in Ranchi/Jharkhand? Thanks! Swami Vimokshananda 04:30, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Mahabodhi Temple

Thanks; that's fine. My edits there were part of a general editing to separate out Sacred Fig (the species) from Bodhi tree (an individual specimen of the species). Do you know what language(s) the names Bo and Peepul derive from? Are they both Hindi, or other languages? I think it would be good to add this information at Sacred Fig. - MPF 18:17, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Bihar

I'm a little confused, I'm afraid. the issue seems to be simply whether the article on Bihar should be called 'Bihar' or Bihar (India). Could you explain why you think that the latter is inaccurate or unacceptable? Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 10:34, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The normal Misplaced Pages approach would be that the main article space should go to the best-know usage, which is surely the Indian Bihar, I agree. Actually, I disagree with the policy, because what counts as the most common isn't always clear, and because it could be argued that people are more likely to be looking for the more obscure uses than the well-known ones — but that's beside the point. I'll speak to people about this. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 11:35, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Looks like User:Hottentot is new. He did some cut-and-paste jobs at Bihar and Bihar, India, and even blanked Bihar (disambiguation). This looks to have been out of ignorance over the right way to do page moves, and lack of experience with Misplaced Pages--which is to be expected. I reversed these and protected the redirect currently at Bihar, India. From his latest response on Talk:Bihar I see is acknowledging his error and so everything is hunky dory. :) --Tony Sidaway|Talk 13:43, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)